Audit
Security and value added
Reliable information and objective judgements will increase security for businesspeople, creditors and shareholders. For this you need experienced auditors who know your company and your business model. And this is precisely what Treuhand audit offers, with its closeness to the Mittelstand.
Our audit activities are tailored to your needs. You’ll get an objective judgement from us and will meet all the legal regulations that are applicable to you. Our audit processes take the latest technical developments into account. We’ll provide the foundations for sound tips and advice that will move you forward. What will you get? More time to concentrate fully on your company.
Final statements audit
- Audit of financial statements and of annual and consolidated financial statements as per HGB and IFRS
- Auditor review of interim reports and financial information
- Auditing the regularity of management actions as per section 53 of the German Budgetary Principles Act
Contact: Carsten Schürmann
Other audit and consulting services
- Conducting special audits as per German Companies Act, LLC and conversion law
- Audits as per energy law regulations e.g. EEG, KWK-G
- Auditing reports on expenditure of funds in connection with public development funds
- Use of funds audit for charitable institutions e.g. foundations
- Audits as per the provisions on packaging ordinances
- Advice on drawing up and auditing sustainability reports
- Audits as per the German Banking and Securities Trading Acts
- Audits as per German broker and builder regulations
- Audits and advice in assessing if there are grounds to open insolvency proceedings
- Accounting advice e.g. statements on complex accounting questions, when converting accounting to IFRS and introducing new standards, organising and optimising accounting, in-house training etc.
Contact: Frank Reichelt
Corporate Finance
- Financial due diligence
- Transaction related legal and voluntary audits and confirmation services
- Other due diligence
- Company valuations
- Valuations as per national and international standards
- Valuations for taxation purposes
- Purchase price allocation
- Arbitration, court and party opinions on questions of company valuation
- Fairness opinions
- Planning and restructuring of corporate finance
- Drawing up and auditing forecasts, e.g. finance models
Contact: Carsten Schürmann
Further services can be found under special services.
Integrated risk management
Internal control system
- Assessing the security of internal control systems
- Advice on introducing and improving existing systems
Risk and compliance management
- Support in introducing risk and compliance management systems
- Auditing existing risk and compliance management systems
Internal audit
- Supporting the existing organisation and taking over internal audit activities
- Conceiving and implementing a build up and expansion of the audit department
- Quality assurance and quality improvement to assess the effectiveness of internal audit systems
- Special investigations in the event of deception, embezzlement and fraud
- Analysing and optimising business processes
Contact: Frank Reichelt
IT-Certification
- Software Certification (IDW PS 880)
- Outsourcing and operations (IDW PS 951)
- Outsourcing and operations (IDW PS 850)
Contact: Tim Kohnen
Claudia Averbeck
Tax Adviser, Certified Adviser in International Taxation
Telephone:+49 (0)441 9710-252 averbeck@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- Advice on Taxation, Tax Structuring, especially for cross-border transactions
- Transfer Pricing, including Structuring and Documentation
- Taxation of Permanent Establishments domestic and abroad
- Advice on International Deployment of Employees
- Advice on National and International Tax Audits
- Preparation of Tax Returns and Annual Financial Statements
Uwe Chamier
Consultant
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-254 chamier@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- Organization and process optimization
- Business concepts
- Finance and accounting
- Controlling
- Data protection
Verena Dietermann
Lawyer
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-119 dietermann@treuhand-recht.de
Focus of activities:
- Employment law advice and structuring of legal relationships
- Collective and individual employment law
- Works constitution law
- Transfer of undertakings and restructuring
- Managing director employment relationships
- Drafting civil law contracts
- Litigation representation
Eugen Evers
Consultant, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-316 evers@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- IT-strategy
- IT-project management and product and service provider selection
- digital business process
- IT-planning and IT-organisation
- IT-revision (IT-internal audit, authorization audit, IT-security)
Heiko Günther
Lawyer, Specialist lawyer for tax law
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-130 guenther@treuhand-recht.de
Focus of activities:
- Indirect Taxes (VAT), national and international Tax
- Cross-border Tax support
- Customs Law
Alexander Hamminger
Attorney, Tax Adviser
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-202 hamminger@treuhand-recht.de
Focus of activities:
- Company, commercial and contract law
- Inheritance law and inheritance tax law
- Corporate succession and company sales
- Occupational pension provision
- Start-up advice
Dr. Christian Hansen
Lawyer, Tax Consultant, Specialist lawyer for tax law
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-189 hansen@treuhand-recht.de
Focus of activities:
- Tax and corporate law advice for companies
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Business succession
- Tax redress procedures and tax court proceed
Tammo Harms
Consultant, Graduate in Business Administration
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-258 harms@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- Finance and accounting
- Integrated planning
- Controlling
- Restructuring
- Start-up advice
Habbo Hartmann
Consultant, Graduate in Business Administration
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-309 hartmann@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- Finance and accounting
- Integrated planning
- Controlling
- Restructuring
- Start-up advice
Ralf Hochhäusler
Attorney, Tax Lawyer
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-151 hochhaeusler@treuhand-recht.de Focus of activities:
- Corporation law and tax planning for companies
- Legal and tax succession planning, especially for family companies
- Tax defence advice including conducting proceedings in financial courts and the German Federal Fiscal Court
- Purchase and sales of companies and shares
Jörg Högemann
Consultant
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-355 hoegemann@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- Lean management
- Strategy development
- Sustainability
- New Work transformation
- Coaching of change processes
- Organisation development
- Implementation of management systems
Tim Kohnen
Consultant, Graduate in Business Information Systems (B.Sc.), MBA
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-334 kohnen@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- IT strategy and IT due diligence
- IT project management
- IT internal audit (IT audit, IT certification, IT forensics, IT security)
- IT crisis and interim management
- IT planning, conception, IT organisation and product and service provider selection
Detlef Nannen
Tax Adviser
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-118 nannen@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- Tax consulting: annual financial statements, tax returns, planning advice
- Business consulting: planning, accounting, interim reporting, cost accounting
- Private pension provision
- Financial bookkeeping
Ina Pfeiffer
Auditor, Tax Adviser
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-145 pfeiffer@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- Auditing and preparing annual financial statements for municipal and tax-privileged companies and entities
- Drawing up consolidated financial statements in the municipal sector
- Business consulting
Frank Reichelt
Auditor, Tax Adviser
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-313 reichelt@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- Auditing and consulting of larger medium-sized companies in the Weser-Ems region and throughout Germany
- Tax and economic advice for young companies
- Development of compliance programs e. g. TCMS
- Examination and advice in connection with the licensing process of DFB and DFL
Carsten Schürmann
Auditor, Tax Adviser
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-293 schuermann@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- Tax planning und tax structuring
- Corporate restructuring
- Succession
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Valuation
- International tax law
- Transfer pricing
Michael Stoltz
Head of Payroll Accounting
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-218 stoltz@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- Organising and implementing payroll accounting national/international
- Implementing and using client software (e.g. time recording systems, PeopleSoft, Oracle) in the payroll systems used by Treuhand
- Preparing wage and salary payrolls
- Support during external payroll tax audits and social security audits
- National outsourcing advice
- Payroll tax and social security law (payroll, pension provision)
Hendrik Sünkler
Consultant, Dipl.-Jurist, CISA, T.I.S.P. Data protection officer
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-328 suenkler@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- Data protection and information security
- IT compliance
- IT testing and IT certification
- IT strategy and IT organization
- Digitization in law firms (RA/WP/StB)
Dr. Henning Tirrel
Senior Consultant
Mobile: +49 (0)160 7877424 tirrel@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- (Strategic) Human Resource Management
- Leadership
- New Work
- Quality Management
Jörg Walzer, LL.M. (Taxation)
Attorney, Tax Consultant, Tax Lawyer
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-113 walzer@treuhand-recht.de
Focus of activities:
- Corporate tax law
- Corporate law
- Value added tax
- Mergers & Aquisitions
- Transaction law
Klaus Wilke
Attorney, Tax Adviser
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-132 wilke@treuhand-recht.de
Focus of activities:
- Company, commercial and contract law
- Inheritance law and inheritance tax law
- Corporate succession and company purchases
- Labour law issues in companies
- Occupational pension provision
Bernard Witte
Auditor, Tax Adviser
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-198 witte@treuhand.de
Focus of activities:
- Tax planning
- Company valuations
- Business consulting
Michael Wurthmann
Attorney, Tax Adviser
Telephone: +49 (0)441 9710-139 wurthmann@treuhand-recht.de
Focus of activities:
- Planning articles of association
- Corporate succession
- Tax centred planning advice
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Company restructurin
A strong team
Openness and appreciation characterize us and our way of working just as much as goal orientation, structure and a high understanding of quality. With a clear head and a feel for what is feasible and essential, our team is dedicated to your challenges.